Constanze Kurz, Frank Rieger: Die Datenfresser (2011) [German]
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Der Wegweiser zur digitalen Mündigkeit.
Warum findet Facebook jeden meiner Bekannten? Auf welche Datenspuren hat der Staat Zugriff? Und was kann man aus ihnen herauslesen?
Die Experten für Informationssicherheit, Constanze Kurz und Frank Rieger, weisen uns den Weg zu einer neuen digitalen Mündigkeit. Sachkundig und verständlich erklären sie, was sich hinter den Benutzeroberflächen tatsächlich verbirgt. Aus dem Strom scheinbar harmloser Daten, die wir tagtäglich im Netz hinterlassen, werden geldwerte Informationen geschöpft, deren Ausmaß und Gehalt wir uns gar nicht vorstellen können. Ob der Staat oder Google, alle bedienen sich am Datensatz Mensch. Es ist an der Zeit, das eigene digitale Schicksal wieder selbst in die Hand zu nehmen.
Die Datenfresser: Wie Internetfirmen und Staat sich unsere persönlichen Daten einverleiben und wie wir die Kontrolle darüber zurückerlangen
Publisher Fischer Taschenbuch Vlg., 2011
Volume 19033 van Fischer Taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe
ISBN 3596190339, 9783596190331
288 pages
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Comment (0)#Intelligence (2012)
Filed under report | Tags: · intelligence agency, privacy, social media, surveillance
The growth of social media poses a dilemma for security and law enforcement agencies. On the one hand, social media could provide a new form of intelligence – SOCMINT – that could contribute decisively to keeping the public safe. On the other, national security is dependent on public understanding and support for the measures being taken to keep us safe.
Social media challenges current conceptions about privacy, consent and personal data, and new forms of technology allow for more invisible and widespread intrusive surveillance than ever before. Furthermore, analysis of social media for intelligence purposes does not fit easily into the policy and legal frameworks that guarantee that such activity is proportionate, necessary and accountable.
This paper is the first effort to examine the ethical, legal and operational challenges involved in using social media for intelligence and insight purposes. It argues that social media should become a permanent part of the intelligence framework but that it must be based on a publicly argued, legal footing, with clarity and transparency over use, storage, purpose, regulation and accountability. #Intelligence lays out six ethical principles that can help government agencies approach these challenges and argues for major changes to the current regulatory and legal framework in the long-term, including a review of the current Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
Authors Sir David Omand, Jamie Bartlett, Carl Miller
Publisher Demos, London, 24 April 2012
ISBN 978-1-909037-08-3
Creative Commons license
106 pages
Julie E. Cohen: Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice (2012)
Filed under book | Tags: · code, copyright, everyday, internet, law, life, networks, piracy, play, privacy, security, self, surveillance
The legal and technical rules governing flows of information are out of balance, argues Julie E. Cohen in this original analysis of information law and policy. Flows of cultural and technical information are overly restricted, while flows of personal information often are not restricted at all. The author investigates the institutional forces shaping the emerging information society and the contradictions between those forces and the ways that people use information and information technologies in their everyday lives. She then proposes legal principles to ensure that people have ample room for cultural and material participation as well as greater control over the boundary conditions that govern flows of information to, from, and about them.
Publisher Yale University Press, 2012
ISBN 0300125437, 9780300125436
Printable version is under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike license
352 pages
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